Wouter Snoei (1977) gained his Masters Degree after 6 years of study at the Institute of Sonology (Royal Conservatory of The Hague) in 2000. Before that he was already active as a musician, playing the harp from the age of 7 and making music with computers and electronics later on. During his years at the Conservatory and afterwards, Wouter worked in various fields of music practice, all involving electronic music.

Wouter was sound director in several performances of electro-acoustic pieces by Luigi Nono, John Cage and Gérard Grisey. He works regularly with Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, ASKO Kamerkoor and NVL/Elec. Voices. Wouter also performed with Jasper Blom and other jazz artists at the North Sea Jazz festival. Furthermore, he founded his own dance project x(eptional, which won the Dutch award "Grote prijs van Nederland" (Grand Prize of the Netherlands) in 1997. Wouter performed in many Dutch club venues and released a number of records, also with other artists such as Streamer.

In the past few years Wouters focus has shifted more and more towards composition and performance of live electronic and electro-acoustic music, adding live control as part of electronic composition. This has led to six compositions for live electronics so far, of which the latest two include a combination of electronics with voices and instruments. His recent piece “Dialogue” ( 4 singers and live electronics) was performed by the NVL / Elect. Voices vocal ensemble at the Gaudeamus Music Week 2006 and the 22 festival de Música at Alicante, Spain. In November 2006 a new piece, especially written for a Wave Field Synthesis system, was presented at the November Music Festival in the Netherlands and Belgium. Wouter was also a co-developer of this system.

Currently Wouter is working on two pieces for live electronics combined with voices and other instruments, one of which will be played by the Calefax Reedquintet